Name: ASCII

Synonyms: ascii value, ascii

Type: glossary

Description:
American Standard Code for Information Interchange. ASCII represents
each text <character> by a number in the range 0 to 127. This number is
the character's ASCII value.

("ASCII value" is also used loosely, to refer to the numeric equivalent
of special characters that aren't in the ASCII set.)

References: character (glossary)

Tags: text processing

